Question about installing on ubuntu 18.04

[Gisele_Serebriakova]

@Whitehound

Let’s start with the WINE version you’ve installed. Did you install wine64 or wine32?

I installed wine via the Ubuntu Software GUI. I installed, Wine (development version) rather than just Wine. wine --version outputs wine-3.0.

I ran WINEPREFIX=“$HOME/prefix32” WINEARCH=win32 wine wineboot to create the prefix per the

How do I create a 32-bit WINE prefix?

link given above.

@Whitehound

there are two ways of starting the game

I prefer the windows launcher. That seems to have longer legs than the linux based launcher snorlax released.

@Whitehound

When you have WINE 3.0 or better then you don’t need to do anything else but to set “Windows XP”-mode and that’s it. Then you can just run the Windows installer, let it create a desktop icon for you and it should all work fine with no messing about (no winetricks, no scripting, …)

I’m running wine 3.0 and the OS is set to Windows XP but the eve launcher does not work out of the box.

Running the Launcher icon on the desktop gets me one of two things:

The QTWebEngine error as before.

or

A grey box. I can click on the eve E in the upper right hand corner and mess with some settings, but that’s all I can interact with.